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Geography / Year 8 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding / Unit 2: Changing nations
Curriculum content descriptions
Reasons for, and effects of, internal migration in both Australia and China (ACHGK056)
Elaborations
- identifying and explaining the main types, patterns and trends of internal migration in Australia (for example, employment, lifestyle and retirement migration)
- examining the effects of resource development on employment growth in both the resource regions and the cities, and on internal migration in Australia
- investigating the effects of the ‘fly-in fly-out’ phenomenon on resource-development places
- explaining that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ population mobility reflects attachment to a number of places through family, Country/Place, dispossession, relocation and employment
- identifying and explaining the patterns of temporary and permanent internal migration in China and the effects on the places of origin and destination
- examining the role of labour migration in the urban development of China (for example, the growth of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province)
- exploring the issues relating to China’s ‘floating population’
- examining the environmental problems of China’s megacities (for example, air pollution in Beijing)
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Australia, Moving house, Population mobility